What happens if the revolutionary (but expensive) Segway does an alliance with General Motors?

Segway, a company that have some economic problems for its (ex)revolutionary vehicle that had to revolute the urban traffic, but failed except for a sporadic use from governments.

A strange hybrid is born:

Wow, it looks useful and practical, expecially in the cities. It can reach 35 mph, with a 35 miles of autonomy. Fully electric, it should cost around a third of a standard car...

...it depends what General Motors is meaning with "standard car"... If a standard car is $15000, that means $5000, it is an interesting price point . But, since a "standard" segway it costs $10000, it is a bit impossible that the P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility project) will have a competitive price...

Let's hope that it will not be just a concept like the motorbike The Uno

Update: here is a video:

Even if the much touted massive 1st april virus infection was not so massive, Conficker continues to spread itself.

Conficker is an auto-installing virus if you didn't installed the MS08-067 patch; knowing if you have been infected is a bit hard, because the virus does its best to hide itself.

Luckily, the Conficker Working Group, has found a simple but smart way to know if you have been infected.

In fact, the virus blocks all the connections to the antivirus company websites. In this page, we can see a table, that contains some images, hosted on "generic" websites, and antivirus company websites:

• If you can see all the images: YAY! You are not infected
• If you cannot see the three images at top: you have Conficker C (or higher version)
• If you cannot see F-secure and Trend-micro logos: you have Conficker A or B
• If you cannot see any image... your browser is set to don't show any images

Have you ever tried the PSP internet browser? Slow, limited and without a decent input method, is useless. Almost every times, opening an "average" website, the browser says "Insufficient memory to open the page". This also happens with the newer PSP-2000, besides it has a double amount of RAM. Moreover, the maximum cache memory is just 2mb! 2mb is enough only for a 1998-like internet browsing experience!

But now, thanks to the Netfront Internet Browser - HighMemoryMod patch, there will not be any memory problems! This loader loads the browser without the XMB, also enabling the extra unused ram on the PSP-2000!

Look what a speed boost!!

Video available in high definition, click on HQ

A noticeable boost!

Minimum requirements: a PSP-1000 or a PSP-2000 with a Custom Firmware, if your PSP has an Original Sony firmware, you must find a "Pandora" battery (soon i will publish an howto about this). The newer PSP-3000 are not supported because it is impossible to install a Custom Firmware on them. Also you must have a recent version of custom firmware. It has been confirmed that on version below 3.71 will not work. How to update the custom firmware.

How to install:

1. Download the High Memory patch (source)
2. Extract in x:\PSP\GAME\
3. Load the program from the menu Games\Memory Stick

This program will not touch the system files, it just makes temporary changes in the RAM, use it without fear 

For any questions, feel free to ask in our forum! 

UPDATE: The P86 team has released a new version! (Nicer loading screen, and an exit menu)

Video of the Wii SD loader!

How to run games from SD card!

A while ago, Marcan did a provocation to Waninkoko: coding a way to load (pirated) games from USB drives in just 6 hours.

Ha ha, Waninkoko has replied, he has coded a way to load (pirated) games from SD card in just 2 hours!

Here is the video:

But, he would not release this program. Probably this is due that his loaders use a proprietary file system (WBFS), so loading games from an SD card would be unfomfortable, requiring a switch every times. An USB loader is WAY batter! An 1TB hdd and then.. hahaha. Soon i will publish an how to on the usb loader

UPDATE: The SD loader has been released! You can download it from Waninkoko's blog.

The new anti-piracy law in Sweden cuts the Internet traffic of a whopping 33%! Become effective on April, 1st, it already shows its effects. This new law permits to majors and their piracy enforcement teams to easily get personal data of "sharers". Swedish seems to been frightened by this, take a look to the bandwidth usage graph in Stockholm, weekly:

and the monthly one:

A considerable drop in Internet traffic! Obviously, the Swedish did not stop to share on BitTorrent; according to The Pirate Bay stats, at least the 5% of the Swedish population has used BitTorrent in the last 24 hours! Most of them had chosen VPN anonymization services, that are having an unexpected success.

I just registered myself on facebook. Wow, there are a lot of classmates, i can't believe! And there are a lot of "social applications".

One of these was the "IQ test".

Everywhere, messages will say: your friend "X" has done 120 points, can you beat him?

So, i click to try the IQ test, and i see 10 ultra-easy questions like "what language is spoken in France?", or "The moon is a planet or a star?". I am a bit speechless... In the end, the test tells me, for knowing the result you must give me your cellphone number. What?? So, i write a fictional phone nimber, and i see the scam! Giving the phone number will subscribe you to a 5€/week ringtone service! LOL, what a scam!

 Have you ever seen a strange folder, where the file name is not shown? Like here:

And them you asked yourself: "How i can show file names in explorer?"

A piece of cake! This is a Windows "feature" to "have more space". What a...! You have to click on the change view icon while holding the shift key.

Et voila!

Have you ever desidered to type something in Japanese on your Pc, but you did not because, honestly, is not worth to install the 300mb asian pack, the language bar, and a virtual japanese keyboard just to type a simple sentence?
This website will let you type in Japanese without install any software on your computer

http://ajaxime.chasen.org/

The new President of the USA, is very "technofile". it isn't?

He was the first president to have a dedicated channel on YouTube (now closed for "national security reasons")
The first president to get an official shot by a digital camera
The first president PDA-dependent

When he met the UK prime ministry, he gave a DVD movie set box as a gift. Unfortunately, it was not possible to play them due to "regional locks"

When he met her majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, he gave her an iPod.

Wow, a big change with the past! He kept his promise of "change" 

In the previous post, it was supposed that, it was possible, in theory, "brute-forcely change" the wallpaper by changing the file %windir%\web\wallpaper\windows\img0.jpg while in safe-mode.

Unfortunately, you can't! Rafael Riviera, the man behind the uxtheme patch, for customize the Windows user interface, has demonstrated that the wallpaper image will ONLY be displayed if its hash will be BDB1C7176946A5013E57E28B46911BF04AB6DBB9402FA37464F563F502A11677. (an hash is a code that univocally identify a file)

So, if you buy a PC with this operating system, BEWARE! You will be forced to like this desktop wallpaper"!

PS: IT IS NOT A LATE APRIL'S FOOL!